Everything is connected: the things we do, the things others do, affect people’s lives. The aura of our material planet is a body of energy that is part of us and extends around us from the inside out. This connectivity is showing up willfully in our streets. Bill McKibben points out: “We cannot solve the carbon problem until we solve the power problem.” He also acknowledges the good timing of now-linking movements of activism . The time of putting positive energy into a collective force is in action now as a space to heal these gaping wounds in culture and environment unfolds. To stop the inevitable disaster to ecosystems the Tar Sands Pipeline would create , let us consider other ecological disasters, such as radiation released in Japan and Chernobyl — disasters that did not stay in one place. As a world, we are connected, by atmospheric pathways and by waterways. And, t...